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Yes, I understand that you are not related to me, but Doris's children, and the children of her siblings would be related to me.

Dee-jay, that “date of birth” for Thomas was probably a mistranscription for “date of baptism”.

I have been corresponding with Ian, and he has found a possible alternate baptism for James Gill, son of John and Isabella, at St Sidwell, Exeter, in Oct 1810! Have you seen it and ruled it out?

I emailed you a couple of days ago about our DNA project, but the email bounced. Could you try emailing me, please?

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I am very confident I have the right James Gill, born Dec 1822 at Churchstanton, as indicated by a 1944 letter from my grandfather, and also James Gill's 1913 headstone at Derby. Thanks for including the information from the parish registers, but I already had it as I had transcribed it from the original registers in 1981. I have been researching this family for a long time! 😀 I recorded James Gill's parents as William and MARIA. His mother was named Mary only twice, both times in 1825 when her son Tom was baptised and when she herself was buried. My Gills lived in Churchstanton until sometime between 1835 when William witnessed his stepson's marriage, and 1841 when William and Mary were living at Clayhidon. In 1851 and 1861 William was at Wellington with his son William, and died there in 1863 aged 72. As Churchstanton was such a small parish, it seems likely that all Gills before 1841 were the same family. Some time later another family of Gills, blacksmiths, started living at Churchstanton, but I have not been able to connect them to my Gills. Are you connected to these later Gills, or the earlier ones?

There was a Coast Guard Station at Ballyheigue, near Tarbert, Co Kerry. My GG Uncle, a Coast Guard, was living at Ballyheigue from at least 1873 to 1876. According to his Coast Guard file at the National Archives, Kew, the name of his station was "Valiant", Ballyheigue.